“What we cannot do is that there is confidential information and who manages the data of this confidentiality is the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Panama, and it comes to light. That means they already have the previous exam and I give it to them. of the Privileges of the Faculty of Medicine “, he pretended.
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Adames dared to say that he has enough arguments to prove even to the President of the Republic, Laurentino Cortizo, what he stated during the advocacy period on Monday, in the plenary session of the National Assembly.
He added that the medical certification exam currently being applied in the country comes from the United States and only UP medical students receive exclusive training, while those from abroad and private universities develop it as a “blind man”. .
“He plays in life, they are made by the medical training institutions in the country and by the Faculty of Medicine, with Mr. Enrique Mendoza and a limited combination”, remarked the.
Since January 2021, the existence of a bill amending Law 43 of 2004, which creates the certification and recertification of health professionals and technical specialists proposed by several deputies, including Crispiano Adames and the independent Erick Broce, who was rejected by the population.
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However, on Saturday, March 6, the surprise came from the Ministry of Health (Minsa), which issued a resolution in which the percentage of basic medicine certification fell from 41.5% to 34.5%, generating rejection and controversy. .
Minsa’s justification was that in the midst of the pandemic it is necessary to occupy 100% of the functions of inpatients.
Earlier, the dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Panama, Enrique Mendoza, also referred to the draft law within the National Assembly that aims to lower the score.
Mendoza denied the Ministry of Health and said it was a lie that there was a lack of national doctors.
He also said that the certification exam was held on March 5, despite numerous obstacles from some officials.
The Dean of the Faculty of Medicine has requested the withdrawal of initiatives and decrees that, in his opinion, destroy the process that has been built in seventy years and mainly in the last seven years with certification exams.